Friday, April 18, 2008

WHAT THE HECK!?!~

As if living in the South, where we're susceptible to tornado warnings 6 months out of the year is unnerving enough - apparently we're also capable of having earthquakes.

At 4:30 this morning, Jason and I both woke quite suddenly as we found ourselves shaking in our bed. The first thing that flew out of my mouth was "We're having an earthquake!". Jason, who normally barely even flinches in his sleep during a massive thunderstorm, says to me quite calmly, "no, it's got to be a plane flying too low or a train". I explained - we couldn't actually hear a train or a plane - it HAD to be an earthquake. And it was really rockin our house pretty good, rattling the windows and shaking the bed. And Banks ran into the bedroom jumped up on the bed and was a bit freaked out herself. So it stops and I'm all - "wait, there could be aftershocks" and my heart is pounding. And then Jason's all "I've never known there to be earthquakes here". Oh au contraire my little love-muffin. Sure enough, I get to work today - go to the local news website and guess what....

Oh yeah baby. Who knows their earthquakes? This west coast girl knows a little something about earthquakes, but you'd think my California-born husband would too! I think he's been away from home a little too long.

But seriously now, how fair is it that we're prone to earthquakes AND tornadoes? And here I was thinking I was trading one for the other. Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit! (*That's for you baby!!)

4 comments:

Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit?!! I will be laughing over that all day- and I will be looking for a chance to use it.

It's up with the "Darl'n [he always throws in a 'darlin'] I may have been born in the dark, but it wasn't last night" ... and ... "You can call it whatever you like [darlin], but if it walks like a duck, and if it quacks like a duck- it's probably a duck."

I agree with katie - those two lines cracked me up. We saw your earthquake on the news... that's pretty amazing. I should be at the Ladies' Conference tonight but we're snowed in on Apr 18! crazy weather. We live up higher than most people & get more snow... I want to get a 4 wheel drive vehicle... but for now, I'm snowed in.